Nestor Cerpa Cartolini

Nestor Cerpa Cartolini (14 August 1953-22 April 1997) was a Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) leader during the Internal conflict in Peru. He was killed during the Japanese embassy hostage crisis of 1997.

Biography
Nestor Cerpa Cartolini was born on 14 August 1953 to a working-class family in Lima, Peru, and he became a union leader in the 1970s. From December 1978 to February 1979 he led the takeover of the Cromotex textile factory before the military government restored order at the cost of many protester's lives. Cartolini joined the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) as a result, and after the 1992 arrest of Victor Polay he became the MRTA's main leader during the Internal conflict in Peru. On 17 December 1996 Cartolini personally led the MRTA during the Japanese embassy hostage crisis, where the MRTA took hundreds of people hostage at a party celebrating Emperor Akihito of Japan's 63rd birthday. On 22 April 1997, in Operation Chavin de Huantar, 142 Peruvian Army commandos stormed the ambassadorial residence and killed all 14 MRTA rebels, including Cartolini.